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Contributions to cinematreasures.orgby Eric Leeuwenberg

What is Cinema Treasures? What's the beauty of the cinema?What is Cinema Treasures? What's the beauty of the cinema?

Cinema Treasures is your guideto over 43,000 movie theaters from around the world.

“Because you're tired of watching movies on your laptop.”“Because you're tired of watching movies on your laptop.”

As a photographer and a patron,I like to shoot and to document movie theaters for the website.

Euro Cinema (closed in 1987) had a great reputationin and around The Hague. The cinema was opened on 25th September 1963. “Lawrence of Arabia” was the first film shown. In the next ten years, more than two and a half million people saw films like the “Sound of Music”, “Doctor Zhivago” or “Ben Hur”.

“In the cinema you escape reality “In the cinema you escape reality and you can be transported to any place; and you can be transported to any place;

a green forest, an attic in Manhattan or a spaceship.”a green forest, an attic in Manhattan or a spaceship.”

“In the cinema you have beautiful carpets, ornaments and murals;you don't have this at home, watching TV.”

Woody Allen in 'Meeting WA'by Jean Luc Godard (1986).

“Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies“Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the moviesbecause they want to feel good and forget about everything.”because they want to feel good and forget about everything.”

Vincent Cassel.Vincent Cassel.

Cinema Lumi re èin Bruges Belgium is located right in the citycenter and

housed in the premises of

“The Republic”.

The Blue roomhas 174 seats, the Red Room 76, the Green Room 60.

Plans for a fourth hall started in

2014.

A diverse choice of films appeals

to all ages.

“My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first timewhen I made my first movie in 1978.”

Roberto Benigni

The Luxor Theater opened in 1917 In 1926, it was taken over by theGerman chain Ufa, and renamed Luxor Palast. After the war, from1945, it was also used for live performances.

In the 1970’s, it was modernised It now operates mainly as a live theatre and concert venue, andis one of the host venues for theannual Rotterdam Film FestivalNow known as the Oude Luxor Theater, as a new Luxor Theater hasbeen built on south. Plans to demolishwere proposed in 2008. In 2014 it wasmodernised again in 2014; fortunatelyfor the theater.

“I don't know anything about life,but everything about cinema.”

Romy Schneider

It keeps expanding; it never seems to end..

It's like building the Sagrada Familia Cathedral.

.Cinema Treasures has united movie theaters and patrons

.to build the world’s most comprehensive guide

.and celebrate and preserve the moviegoing experience.